History of Changes

Changes are sorted by "type" and then chronologically with the most recent at the top. These symbols denote the various action types:=add, =fix, =update

See also the main changes related to all plugins.

Changes to the Code Base

• Add support for svn log files. This let you extract changes based on a svn log file. Further this provides some handy ways to find out the first and last commit of a month and the generation of svn cli commands. Committed by TS.
• Enable optional release/introduction elements. Committed by DC.
• Allow an aggregation of all use cases in a project. Committed by RDG.
• Start off a use case document for the changelog features of the plugin. Committed by RDG.
• Add section to output "Introduction and explanation of symbols". Show the unique symbols. Committed by DC.
• Add support for Use Case documentation. This can be used to generate various different types of user an developer documentation, such as step by step user instructions, or developer implementation notes. See http://localhost:8888/docs/developer/useCases.html for more information. Committed by RDG.
• Use locationmap for resolution of resources and files. Resources are exposed via {lm:projectInfo.*} Committed by RDG.
• Added RSS changes feeds for individual versions. Committed by RDG.
• Removed todo items from changes RSS feed. Committed by RDG.
• Add configuration options to control sorting of changes and inclusion of developer and committer lists. Committed by RDG.
• Add list of committers and developers to changes document. Committed by RDG.
• Enable project-level locationmap to define the location of the project:status file which contains the change notes. Therefore this can even be from a remote location. Committed by DC.
• Add an automated index page that lists all projects in a category. Use projectDetails/category/*.xml to retrieve it. Committed by RDG.
• Add an automated project index page that lists all projects grouped by Category. Use projectDetails/category-index.xml to retrieve it. Committed by RDG.
• Add an automated index page that lists all projects using a specific language. Use projectDetails/*-lang.xml to retrieve it. Committed by RDG.
• Add an automated project index page that lists all projects grouped by language. Use projectDetails/lang-index.xml to retrieve it. Committed by RDG.
• Add an automated index page for all projects using a specified programming language. Use projectDetails/*-lang.xml to retrieve it. Committed by RDG.
• Add an automated site.xml snippet that provides links to an index page for all languages in use in all projects. XInclude projectDetails/lang_index.siteSnippet.xml in your site.xml file. Committed by RDG.
• Add an indexing capability for all known project descriptors. Committed by RDG.
• Use locationmap to expose plugin resources. Committed by RDG.
• Add projectDetails page using the DOAP.xml descriptor. Committed by RDG.
• Fixing small issue with the last ',' which should not be displayed on the last entry of the contributors list. Committed by TS.
• Using a unique key including the release version. Committed by RDG. See Issue FOR-839.
• Use @context and @version to create unique section identifiers in the list of changes. Committed by BMD.
• Fix URLs to issues in the release notes generation. Committed by RDG. See Issue FOR-977.
• Adding svn support specific properties to the default.plugin.properties.xml. Further activated this new properties (projectInfo.svn.ext and projectInfo.svn.path-prefix) in the svn-log.xsl. This allows to have a more flexible export string. Committed by TS.
• List all contributors for each release by showing a list of committers and a list of other contributors. Committed by DC.
• Make the list of contributors for each release be a compact list. Committed by DC.
• Changed rendered text for @dev attribute from "(@dev)" to the more explicit "Committed by @dev.". Committed by DC.
• Changed rendered text for @fix-for from "Fixes" to the more general "See Issue". Committed by DC.
• do not limit status.xml contexts in projectinfo plugin. Committed by jjp. Thanks to cyriaque dupoirieux. See Issue for-514.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
(BMD), David Crossley (DC), Juan Jose Pablos (jjp), Ross Gardler (RDG), Thorsten Scherler (TS).

This is a list of other contributors:
cyriaque dupoirieux.

Changes to Project Administration

• Initial plugin code. Committed by RDG.

Changes to the Code Base

• Add projectDetails page using the DOAP.xml descriptor. Committed by RDG.
• Added automatic generation of release notes by requesting **/releaseNotes_VERSION-NUMBER.xml Committed by RDG.
• Enable the generation of changes for a specific version by requesting **/changes_VERSION-NUMBER.xml Committed by RDG.
• Use the value "current" for the releaseNotes_* URI or specify a version number, i.e. show what is new for the latest release. Committed by DC. Thanks to Cyriaque Dupoirieux. See Issue FOR-564.
• Replace use of document() function in changes2rss.xml with sitemap aggregation. Committed by DC.
• Use the "title" attribute of "changes" and "todo" tags if it exists, otherwise use the hard-coded values. Committed by DC. Thanks to Cyriaque Dupoirieux. See Issue FOR-455.
• Move ToDo and Changes pipelines to this plugin, from core. Committed by RDG.

Changes to Design

• Added optional "notes" element to "release" element of status 1.3 DTD. This will be inserted into the release notes for that version. Committed by RDG.
• Added better sitemap match using regexp to deal with sub-directories too. Committed by DC.

Changes to Documentation

• Basic documentation on how to create release notes are now included on the plugins documentation index page. Committed by RDG.
• Use relative location of images directory. Committed by DC.

Contributors to this release

We thank the following people for their contributions to this release.

This is a list of all people who participated as committers:
David Crossley (DC), Ross Gardler (RDG).

This is a list of other contributors:
Cyriaque Dupoirieux.